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Title: Rand Paul caught lying about his college record
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salon.com
URL Source: http://www.hrblock.com/online-tax-f ... 60&campaignid=ba_mcm_9260_0001
Published: Feb 13, 2015
Author: LUKE BRINKER
Post Date: 2015-02-13 20:41:00 by Gatlin
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Views: 1889
Comments: 10
Ophthalmologist-turned-politician Rand Paul may have a medical degree from Duke University, but the Kentucky senator and likely 2016 presidential candidate never completed his undergraduate education at Baylor University. So why did Paul assert twice yesterday that he holds two bachelor’s degrees from the institution? The senator embellished his record during an appearance at the Lincoln Labs “Reboot Congress” event Thursday. In two instances highlighted by Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler, Paul falsely suggested that he had obtained undergraduate degrees. First came this exchange between Paul and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington: PAUL: Mine’s in biology and English so this is going to be a great conversation. Later on, during a discussion of the virtual currency Bitcoin, Paul said, “This is just me. I have a biology degree, okay? But with Bitcoin my concern always was whether or not something has real value. So I could imagine a kind of coin that was exchangeable. This gets back to the whole idea, does money have to be exchangeable for something to be of value?” Yet as Kessler notes, while Paul studied English and biology at Baylor, he left the university after three years in 1984, before obtaining a bachelor’s degree in either field. Despite lacking an undergraduate degree, Paul went on to graduate from Duke’s medical school in 1988. A spokesman for the senator subsequently clarified that he does not, in fact, hold degrees in English and biology, as he’d claimed. This isn’t the first time Paul has landed in hot water for how he’s handled his college record. During his 2010 Senate campaign, Paul faced criticism for not correcting an interviewer who described him as “a graduate of Baylor University.”
ARRINGTON: Let’s talk about economics because maybe you can actually explain this to me. I have an econ degree which means I know just enough not to understand any of what our government is [inaudible]…
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Rand Paul’s claim — twice in one day — that he has a biology degree.
That Bachelor's Degree Rand Paul Said He Had? It Doesn't Exist.
Check your link.
Thanks, it jumped to a advertisement while I was in the process... http://www.salon.com/2015/02/13/rand_paul_caught_lying_about_his_coll e ge_record/.
Peter King: Rand Paul ‘Lies’ About NSA, ‘Doesn’t Deserve to Be in the United States Senate.
Rand Paul Lies To African Americans By Claiming He Never Opposed the Civil Rights Act.
Hahahah! The cop thugs see Rand Paul and Libertarians as a huge threat to their porker pig empire.....LOL! The porkers are hysterical.
Hahahah! Your savior's a LIAR. But then you probably already knew that... didn't you, convict.
Peter King, huh? Would that be IRA Terrorist supporter Peter King? Peter King had already been a long-standing supporter of the I.R.A. “We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry,” Nassau Country Comptroller King told a pro-I.R.A. rally on Long Island in 1982. In 1985, he said in an interview with a pro-I.R.A. paper in America, “If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.”
Yea, that is the same Peter King who said that Rand Paul should resign for “lying” to a Senate committee and said that Rand Paul 'disgraced' his office. And it is the same Rand Paul Paul, who incorrectly said that Ebola was "incredibly contagious" and that it was possible to get Ebola from someone standing just three feet away from you. In reality, Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluid. And it is the same Rand Paul who said: "I never, ever cheated. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important." Jill Lawrence over at the National Journal wrote, "so call him the Minister of Misinformation (others already have on Twitter). The general sense from the political left and center is that Paul, like his father, Ron Paul, is too iconoclastic and doctrinaire to win a national election, let alone the GOP’s nomination. And Paul’s relative “truthiness” will blow up on him in the national spotlight. You can now pull out the copy and paste statement you have on file about misinformation specialist and post it again here.
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#8. To: TEA Party Reveler (#7)
"The problem with Paul isn’t that he lacks an undergraduate degree, but that he lied about having one. "
#9. To: Gatlin (#5)
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Peter King: Rand Paul ‘Lies’ About NSA,
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
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